These are excellent points... for prose ... but I think that they function quite well verbally. Indeed, in some cases, they're an expected part of a verbal register. That said, I'm not going to give up writing sentences which end in prepositions. And I suppose that one could make the case that the presence of the preposition creates a certain kind of emphasis that might be desirable. Examples fail me, at the moment, but I would imagine it would be something like the difference between "la tango" and "Yo la tango," if you see what I mean?﻿

The realm of Digital Humanities has embraced the potential for technology to enrich our collective cultural heritage. Beyond building bespoke software to assist with archive digitization and artefact reconstruction several recent forays have embraced aspects of ...

Has anyone found a good app for desktop notification of Google+ things? For some reason, I just can't bring myself to leave my browser open all day, or to sit right next to my Android. It'd be nice to find something that works similarly to my Gmail notifier...﻿

Google+ is Growing Like Crazy. Report Coming Monday. Probably More than 4.5 Million Users Already

On Monday morning I plan to publish my latest research on how many Google+ users there are so far. My model is based on US Census Bureau data about how many people there are in the U.S. with each surname. I've described before the shortfalls of this model for calculating non-US users. But I haven't seen a better methodology from anyone else yet about estimating Google+ growth, so I'll continue to work on this one.

I updated about 1/4 of my surname counts tonight, and am very surprised at how fast the userbase is growing. Here are some sample user counts by surname:

On Monday there were a large number of uncommon US surnames with no Google+ users by those names. Today, I'm finding very few US surnames with no Google+ users. For example, all of these surnames had 0 users by that name on Monday, but they all have multiple users with that name now:

As I said, I'm only 1/4 through the updates, but preliminary calculations suggest that since Monday, Google+ users have grown by 2.8x, that is from 1.7 million to 4.7 million. Again, this is preliminary but by Monday morning I should have 4x as much data to improve the estimate.﻿

I think it's really interesting, so far! The demo for "Fall on Me" is particularly cool... Michael definitely seems to be a chorus-first kind of writer (or, at least he was...). And the demo for "I Believe" is just hilarious...﻿